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The InVenture Prize, Georgia Tech’s annual undergraduate invention competition, will hold its finale April 1. The InVenture Prize rewards undergraduate students inventors who create devices that aim to solve the world's problems or at least make our lives a bit more comfortable. Chris Reaves, director of Undergraduate Research and Student Innovation, explains how the competition encourages and supports students' interest in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Rolling Stones will come to Georgia Tech on June 9, playing at Bobby Dodd Stadium for the second time in their (very) long music careers. They played in the stadium in 1989 when lead singer Mick Jagger was 46. He’ll be 71 this time. Professor Philip Auslander studies and teaches the history of popular music and explains what made the Stones unique all those years ago, and how some things still haven’t changed.

NASA has released new findings from the Mars rover Curiosity about nitrogen on the planet. Assistant Professor James Wray, a co-author on the paper, is a member of Curiosity SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument team and has been contributing to the search for surface nitrogen. He’s also a marathon runner, which means he has something in common with another rover currently on Mars.

It's not the planes, trains or automobiles that Assistant Professor Kari Watkins is focusing on these days. It's the bikes. Her research is helping to keep them safer and guiding the City of Atlanta on how to be more bike-friendly.

Traditionally, transportation planning in the U.S. has been automobile-focused, resulting in marginalization of healthy and active modes of transportation like cycling and walking. Environmentally, this has contributed to air pollution. Economically, this has contributed to dependence on international sources of fuel. Socially, this has contributed to an alarming increase in obesity, heart disease and asthma among both adults and children. Atlanta, traditionally not a bike friendly city, has recently seen a 417 percent increase in bike commuting from 2000 to 2011. The City of Atlanta has been a key player in promoting biking in the region and is intent on developing a network of bicycle facilities in the city.

Georgia Tech is consistently ranked among the nation’s best buys for college. Still, college leaders recognize that many families struggle to pay for a degree. Rick Clark, director of Undergraduate Admission at Georgia Tech, explains the different financial aid opportunities available to students and their families.

As a public institution, we continue to look at ways to keep the doors of education opportunity open for our students.

We are continually identifying ways to make Georgia Tech more affordable, particularly for high-performing in-state students with financial need. The G. Wayne Clough Georgia Tech Promise program provides qualified students a path to graduate debt free.

The program provides full financial need to cover tuition, fees, books, and room and board for students from families with annual incomes of less than $33,300 per year. More than 600 students have participated in this program since 2007.